Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse
Amazon’s cloud division has launched an investigation into Perplexity AI. At issue is whether the AI search startup is violating Amazon Web Services rules by…
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Surprise! The Latest ‘Comprehensive’ US Privacy Bill Is Doomed
Dozens of civil rights organizations had been urging Democrats (some of whom had puzzlingly signed off on those changes) to sink the bill, arguing that…
War Crime Prosecutions Enter a New Digital Age
A custom platform developed by SITU Research aided the International Criminal Court’s prosecution in a war crimes trial for the first time. It could change…
The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over
United States prosecutors have secured a deal with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requiring the long-embattled publisher to plead guilty to one count of espionage for…
The Mystery of AI Gunshot-Detection Accuracy Is Finally Unraveling
This week, New York City’s comptroller published a similar audit of the city’s ShotSpotter system showing that only 13 percent of the alerts the system…
Deepfake Creators Are Revictimizing GirlsDoPorn Sex Trafficking Survivors
Among those charged, Ruben Andre Garcia, a GirlsDoPorn producer and recruiter, was sentenced to 20 years in prison; Matthew Isaac Wolfe, who admitted to having…
Red Tape Is Making Hospital Ransomware Attacks Worse
“I can tell you with complete confidence that ransomware attacks harm patients,” says Hannah Neprash, an associate professor of health policy at the University of…
A Catastrophic Hospital Hack Ends in a Leak of 300M Patient Records
The rolling series of breaches targeting customers of cloud platform Snowflake appears to be a supply chain attack wrapped in another supply chain attack. A…
Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
“They’d only get in trouble if they summarized the story incorrectly and made it defamatory when it wasn’t before. That’s something that they actually would…
US Bans Kaspersky Software | WIRED
The Russian cybersecurity software firm Kaspersky’s days of operating in the United States are now officially numbered. The Biden administration on Thursday said it’s banning…
Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
“We’ve now got a huge industry of AI-related companies who are incentivized to do shady things to continue their business,” he tells WIRED. “By not…
This Is What Would Happen if China Invaded Taiwan
In late March, a Taiwanese data analyst posted on social media about an odd satellite image: It appeared that the Chinese military had erected at…